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to today. a bit more rain and drizzle in northern england later in the afternoon, but the rest of england and wales, varying cloud, sunshine breaking through activities in double figures. as we go through towards thursday, high pressure building from the south and east keeping the wind fairly light across southern and eastern areas, these are the areas most prone to mist and fog in the morning. it looks like there will be a fair bit of cloud round on thursday, patchy rain and drizzle in the north and west but most will have a dry day. temperatures of 11 degrees for most of you. it will feel a little bit cooler and as high pressure builds in for the end of the week, it will be right across as meaning in the centre of it, the lightest of the wind, greater chance of the mist and fog and low cloud, sunshine at a premium but it will be h case of chasing a case of chasing chasing around the cloud.
for england and wales into the evening. skies clearing, just some isolated showers for scotland and northern ireland. temperatures holding up above freezing, aside from perhaps on the most sheltered glens of scotland. generally close to the north of the uk, 6 or 7 degrees, very mild to the south of this band of rain, overnight lows of ii this band of rain, overnight lows of ii or 12. that is because we are pulling up this warm air from a ii or 12. that is because we are pulling up this warm airfrom a long way south in the atlantic and we pull it almost right the way across the uk, a bit like a warm blanket through because of sunday, and we do so as this weather front swings up from the south. some early rains in north wales, the midlands, i think through the afternoon for northern england and northern ireland. later in the day we will see that rain heading into southern scotland. temperatures though to the south of the rain could be even up to 15 degrees in one or two spots. quite a lo
14-20, but of scotland. temperatures will be 11t 20, but in the hi nines we can see 23 or 24. schmidt 14 20, but in the hi nines we can see 23 or 24. schmidt highlands. we could see cloud around and some drizzle by the end of the night some patchy rain and when we hang on to clear skies, temperatures could tumble into clear figures as for most towns and figures we are looking at double figures. into tomorrow then. still high pressure in charge drifting further east. still pulling in this moisture from the north sea, so still fairly cloudy. the best of the breaks will be across western scotland, north west england and southern england as we go through the day. the breeze won t be as noticeable either. then as we head into the weekend, high pressure drifts the continent, warmer air comes our way and we have two areas of low pressure in the atlantic and is what is putting the spanner of the works in terms of rainfall as you can see. saturday has still a fair bit of cloud round, there will
a month s worth of rain in some parts of london, quite nasty flooding. we have a lot of sunshine and dry weather to come over the next few days. weather patterns are getting kind of stuck. those severe thunderstorms have been affecting parts of europe, particularly west germany. nasty flooding there. we get an area of high pressure, sticking around even into next week. quite a long spell of dry weather. it will eventually turn increasingly sunny. before we get there, we have clouds drifting southwards overnight tonight. that will stop temperatures falling very far. quite an uncomfortable night for some, for example liverpool, temperatures falling no lower than around 16 degrees tonight. quite a warm start the day already on thursday. there will be a bit more cloud round for england and wales, but that will turn and break up. spells of sunshine coming through. the sunniest afternoon weather will be across scotland, northern ireland, northern england. in that sunshine, low to mid 20s. pr